Nicole Kidman Praises The Northman's Extraordinary World Building
Nicole Kidman praises the extraordinary worldbuilding in The Northman. Robert Eggers draws on Scandinavian folklore for his latest film, an epic based on the same story that inspired Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The film stars Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth, a young prince on a quest for revenge after the murder of his father and the abduction of his mother.
Eggers of course began building his reputation for delving into dark folklore on his first film The Witch. An interest in the darker nooks and crannies of human psychology also showed itself on Eggers’ debut feature, and continued into his second film The Lighthouse, starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. Eggers has now expanded his worldbuilding efforts on his third film The Northman, a conjuring of the distant past whose creation was such a daunting experience that lead actor Skarsgård confessed to becoming exhausted. Skarsgård’s co-star Anya Taylor-Joy on the other hand said she enjoyed spending her time in the freezing cold and mud for the sake of Eggers’ vision.
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Ultimately Skarsgård and Taylor-Joy both in their own ways expressed admiration for Eggers’ commitment to bringing The Northman to life with as much rigorous realism as possible. And now their co-star Kidman has added her own voice to the chorus of Northman praise. At the movie’s premiere, Kidman (who plays Skarsgård’s mother Queen Gudrún) remarked upon the film’s worldbuilding and how much work Eggers put into bringing the distant past to such vivid life (via Reuters):
It was extraordinary. The way Rob Eggers created this whole world. And it was really like stepping back into reality. The village. The research. All of the
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